The corpus record

μικρότης

mikrotes · ἡ

smallness, meanness, pettiness, triviality

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Where it lives

Parmenides 23 · 15.18/10k
Against the Sophists 1 · 7.55/10k
Phaedo 10 · 4.58/10k
De Sensu et Sensibilibus 3 · 3.84/10k
Timaeus 5 · 2.12/10k
Psalmi Salomonis 1 · 2.1/10k
Panegyricus 2 · 1.86/10k
Statesman 2 · 1.18/10k
Protagoras 2 · 1.13/10k
Regnorum III 2 · 1.05/10k
Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k
Rhetoric 3 · 0.7/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μικρότης · mikrotēs — LSJ

smallness

smallness, first in Anaxag. 1, cf. Arist. Metaph. 1056b29; διὰ σμικρότητα ἀόρατα Pl. Ti. 43a, cf. Isoc. 4.27; of voice, Arist. de An. 422b30; ἀνέμων Thphr. Vent. 1: pl., μεγέθη καὶ μ. Plu. QConv. 2.687e.

2 meanness, pettiness, triviality

meanness, pettiness, of rank, Isoc. 4.93, Arist. Pol. 1302b4; of matters, Id. Rh. 1393a9; of language, triviality, Longin. 43.1.

In the wild

μικρότητα · mikrotēta Aristotle, Ars Poetica 19
μικρότητα · mikrotēta Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 212)
σμικρότητα · smikrotēta Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 66)
μικρότητα · mikrotēta Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 84)
μικρότητι · mikrotēti Aristotle, Metaphysics book 10 (DIORISIS sentence 2727)
μικρότητι · mikrotēti Aristotle, Metaphysics book 10 (DIORISIS sentence 2727)

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Where it came from

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